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Naletale Ruins National Monument
Naletale Ruins is widely celebrated as the most aesthetically ornate dry-stone monument in Southern Africa, constructed atop a granite hill overlooking the Somabhula Flats. Built by the Torwa Dynasty and later occupied by the Rozvi Empire in the seventeenth century, its magnificent walls showcase six distinct decorative masonry patterns and carry eerie tales of phantom sentinels, lost royal gold, and protective spirit guardians.